Biology and biomechanics of the heart valve extracellular matrix

KM Kodigepalli, K Thatcher, T West… - Journal of …, 2020 - mdpi.com
Heart valves are dynamic structures that, in the average human, open and close over
100,000 times per day, and 3× 109 times per lifetime to maintain unidirectional blood flow …

Mechanical considerations for polymeric heart valve development: Biomechanics, materials, design and manufacturing

RL Li, J Russ, C Paschalides, G Ferrari, H Waisman… - Biomaterials, 2019 - Elsevier
The native human heart valve leaflet contains a layered microstructure comprising a
hierarchical arrangement of collagen, elastin, proteoglycans and various cell types. Here …

Computational methods for the aortic heart valve and its replacements

R Zakerzadeh, MC Hsu, MS Sacks - Expert review of medical …, 2017 - Taylor & Francis
Introduction: Replacement with a prosthetic device remains a major treatment option for the
patients suffering from heart valve disease, with prevalence growing resulting from an …

Parameterization, geometric modeling, and isogeometric analysis of tricuspid valves

EL Johnson, DW Laurence, F Xu, CE Crisp… - Computer methods in …, 2021 - Elsevier
Approximately 1.6 million patients in the United States are affected by tricuspid valve
regurgitation, which occurs when the tricuspid valve does not close properly to prevent …

Mechanical experimentation of the gastrointestinal tract: a systematic review

C Durcan, M Hossain, G Chagnon, D Perić… - … and Modeling in …, 2024 - Springer
The gastrointestinal (GI) organs of the human body are responsible for transporting and
extracting nutrients from food and drink, as well as excreting solid waste. Biomechanical …

Patient-specific inverse modeling of in vivo cardiovascular mechanics with medical image-derived kinematics as input data: concepts, methods, and applications

JH Bracamonte, SK Saunders, JS Wilson, UT Truong… - Applied Sciences, 2022 - mdpi.com
Inverse modeling approaches in cardiovascular medicine are a collection of methodologies
that can provide non-invasive patient-specific estimations of tissue properties, mechanical …

A noninvasive method for the determination of in vivo mitral valve leaflet strains

BV Rego, AH Khalighi, A Drach, EK Lai… - … journal for numerical …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Assessment of mitral valve (MV) function is important in many diagnostic, prognostic, and
surgical planning applications for treatment of MV disease. Yet, to date, there are no …

Characterization of the layer, direction and time-dependent mechanical behaviour of the human oesophagus and the effects of formalin preservation

C Durcan, M Hossain, G Chagnon… - Journal of the …, 2024 - royalsocietypublishing.org
The mechanical characterization of the oesophagus is essential for applications such as
medical device design, surgical simulations and tissue engineering, as well as for …

The effects of viscoelasticity on residual strain in aortic soft tissues

W Zhang, G Sommer, JA Niestrawska, GA Holzapfel… - Acta Biomaterialia, 2022 - Elsevier
Residual stress is thought to play a critical role in modulating stress distributions in soft
biological tissues and in maintaining the mechanobiological stress environment of cells …

A functionally graded material model for the transmural stress distribution of the aortic valve leaflet

BV Rego, MS Sacks - Journal of biomechanics, 2017 - Elsevier
Heterogeneities in structure and stress within heart valve leaflets are of significant concern
to their functional physiology, as they affect how the tissue constituents remodel in response …